Serious unclassified road crash in Birmingham B32 on 16 September 2014 at 18:26 involving a Vauxhall Zafira
A Vauxhall Zafira, a Ford Focus and a Mini One were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Birmingham at 18:26 on Tuesday 16 September 2014. There were four casualties: one person was seriously injured and three were slightly injured. Four of them were pedestrians.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 16 Sep 2014
- Tuesday, 18:26
- Vehicles
- 3
- Vauxhall Zafira and 2 others
- Casualties
- 4
- 1 seriously injured, 3 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.45329, longitude -1.97407, in the B32 postcode district and within the built-up area of Birmingham. It is one of the crashes that make up the Harborne, Birmingham, B17 9RS area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Birmingham
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201420S511454
- Council area
- Birmingham
- Police force
- West Midlands
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- T or staggered junction
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- Unclassified
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Daylight
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 100%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 0%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 36 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 18 July 2013.
Slight
Citroen C3 crash on an unclassified road in Birmingham, 18 July 2013
36 m awayRef 201320S036493
Slight
Peugeot 206 crash on an unclassified road in Birmingham, 1 June 2009
42 m awayRef 200920F098302
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Birmingham, 31 July 1994
50 m awayRef 19942094W1817
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Birmingham, 7 June 2004
50 m awayRef 200420F143402
Serious
Motorcycle crash on an unclassified road in Birmingham, 3 October 1981
50 m awayRef 19812000C1846
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Birmingham, 3 March 1982
50 m awayRef 19822000C0415
Vehicles involved (3)
Vehicle 1: Vauxhall Zafira
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Position at junction
- Entering main road
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Hit object in carriageway
- Parked vehicle
- Leaving the carriageway
- Straight ahead at junction
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 27 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,796 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 15 years
Vehicle 2: Ford Focus
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Engine capacity
- 1,388 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 13 years
Vehicle 3: Mini One
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Parked
- Travelling from
- Parked
- Travelling to
- Parked
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver age
- 40 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,598 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 11 years
Casualties (4)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightFemale, aged 26, hit by vehicle 1 (Vauxhall Zafira)
Casualty 2: Pedestrian
SeriousMale, aged 41, hit by vehicle 1 (Vauxhall Zafira)
Casualty 3: Pedestrian
SlightMale, aged 19, hit by vehicle 1 (Vauxhall Zafira)
Casualty 4: Pedestrian
SlightMale, aged 40, hit by vehicle 1 (Vauxhall Zafira)
Data source
This record comes from the Department for Transport’s road safety data (STATS19), in which police forces in Great Britain record every road crash reported to them where someone was injured. It is reference 201420S511454 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Birmingham road accident statistics for 2014.